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Fla. Powerball Ticket Sales Reach 1.3M On 1st Day

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Jan 5, 2009 11:45 am US/Eastern

Fla. Powerball Ticket Sales Reach 1.3M On 1st Day

TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) ― Cash registers across South Florida and the rest of the state have been ringing up plenty of Powerball ticket sales. Almost a million and a half Powerball tickets were sold Sunday, the first day they went on sale in Florida, according to lottery officials.

Florida is the 30th state, along with the District of Columbia and the U.S Virgin Islands, to offer the game.

By the end of the day Sunday, retailers had sold 1.3 million of the $1 tickets in the Sunshine State. Another 200,000 tickets were sold in advance. The next drawing for the multistate lottery is Wednesday for an estimated jackpot of $105 million. The odds are 1 in 195 million.

Winning jackpots have averaged $38 million. In 2006, a winner claimed a record $365 million. Officials expect Florida's participation will make the jackpots even bigger.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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